Polls Find Biden's Approval Rating Higher Than Trump's Ever Was

I warned you.

The senile evil bastard is going to sleepwalk the country toward socialism.

President Biden’s approval rating in his first days in office is higher than Donald Trump ever achieved during his four years as president, two new polls have found, according to Yahoo.

A Morning Consult tracking poll published Monday found that 56 percent of voters approve of Biden’s job performance, while 34 percent disapprove. At the same early juncture of Trump’s presidency, 46 percent of Americans polled said they approved of his job performance, and the polling high point for his term in office came in March 2017, when his approval rating hit 52 percent.

A second poll, conducted by Hill-HarrisX and also released on Monday, put Biden’s approval rating at 63 percent, while 37 percent said they disapprove of the job he was doing so far. Trump, by contrast, reached an approval rating high of 52 percent in an April 2020 survey by the same pollster.

-RW

Robert Kennedy Jr: Hank Aarons Death After Receiving the COVID-19 Vaccination is Suspicious

 

Home Run King Hank Aaron Dies of ‘Undisclosed Cause’ 18 Days After Receiving Moderna Vaccine

By Children's Health Defense Team

Baseball legend Hank Aaron, who received the Moderna COVID vaccine on Jan. 5, has died. According to the New York Times, the Atlanta Braves confirmed the 86-year-old Hall of Famer’s death today, but did not provide further details.

CNN reported that Aaron died “peacefully in his sleep,” and that no cause of death was disclosed.

Aaron made headlines earlier this month when he was photographed getting the Moderna vaccine. He told the Associated Press at the time that getting vaccinated “makes me feel wonderful.” He added:

“I don’t have any qualms about it at all, you know. I feel quite proud of myself for doing something like this. … It’s just a small thing that can help zillions of people in this country.”

Aaron was vaccinated at the Morehouse School of Medicine health clinic in Atlanta, in what news reports said was an attempt to inspire other Black Americans to step up to the plate and get the vaccine. The AP reported at the time:

“Rolling up their sleeves to take the first of two doses, these octogenarians, their spouses and several other civil rights leaders who received the shots in a brand-new health clinic at the Morehouse School of Medicine acknowledged the legacy of mistrust that many African Americans have toward medical research, stemming from the infamous Tuskegee experiment in which U.S. health workers left syphilis untreated in Black men without their consent, making them suffer needlessly.”

In December, VOX reported on the launch of a global campaign using influencers and celebrities to help overcome “vaccine hesitancy,” stating that it “will be unprecedented” and many institutions will have a role, including government and public health authorities.

However, health officials continue to encounter pushback, including from healthcare workers.

Adverse events to the COVID vaccine have been reported worldwide. Germany and Norway have reported a combined 43 deaths among elderly people who received the Pfizer vaccine, prompting China health officials to call for the vaccines to be suspended, especially among the elderly.

On learning of Aaron’s death, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., chairman and chief legal counsel for Children’s Health Defense, said: “Aaron’s tragic death is part of a wave of suspicious deaths among elderly closely following administration of COVID vaccines.”

“Studies show that self-interested pharmaceutical company researchers, physicians, nursing homes and health officials seldom report vaccine injuries. Instead, they dismiss injuries and deaths as ‘unrelated’ to vaccination,” Kennedy said. “Public health advocates worry that the vast majority of injuries and deaths will go unreported to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), the notoriously broken voluntary surveillance system run by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).”

A 2010 HHS study concluded that “fewer than 1% of vaccine injuries” are reported to VAERS.

As The Defender reported last week, California was forced to recall a batch of 330,000 Moderna vaccines after a cascade of reported injuries, though now the company says it’s okay to resume administration of that batch.

The Defender also covered the story of a 56-year-old Florida doctor who died about two weeks after getting his first dose of Pfizer’s vaccine. His death is under investigation by Florida health officials. In addition, multiple severe allergic reactions have been directly linked to the Pfizer vaccine.

The above originally appeared at childrenshealthdefense.org.

Joe Biden as Mad Social Justice Warrior

Does Senile Joe even know what he is saying when the teleprompter is put in front of him?

Or is he really a mad social justice warrior?

This was Joe on Tuesday talking about racial equity:

Does he even know what racial equity is and that it is an extreme radical social justice warrior tenet?

From the Social Justice Encyclopedia:

In Critical Social Justice, the meaning of “equity” takes pains to distinguish itself from that of “equality.” Where equality means that citizen A and citizen B are treated equally, equity means “adjusting shares in order to make citizens A and B equal.” 

To provide an example. This would actually fit racial equity theory. During a baseball game, if an umpire calls the balls and strikes the same for all players that would be considered "equality under the law." This, however, would not be enough for social justice warriors. SJWs want racial equity.

Racial equity would mean that because say a black player getting paid a hundred million dollars per year had ancestors that were slaves he would be considered at a disadvantage because of his ancestral history, and so to adjust and provide "racial equity," the player would say be allowed 10 strikes instead of 3, or maybe not have fastballs pitched to him but have the ball lobbed to him.

The racial equity concept makes a mockery of life, the idea that everyone can be made equal is absurd. 

Further, it truly hurts the black people who can achieve greatness on their own and don't need the power-hungry race hustling social justice warriors to provide them crutches for every step of their journey.

The concept of racial equity is the ultimate idea that talented, hard-working blacks can't achieve greatness on their own in modern America and that they need to be treated as babies who can barely walk.

This is what the handlers of Senile Joe want to introduce into America: That blacks are incompetent on their own. Totally evil! 

-RW

Modeling Fauci Mask Recommendations

Based on Imperial College COVID-19 forecast methodology.

https://t.co/Bg8gMMIIJ2 pic.twitter.com/DNeKeAFt9B

— Phil Magness (@PhilWMagness) January 26, 2021

-RW

Why is There No QAnon on the Left?

 

I only have a vague familiarity with QAnon. It apparently promotes some far-out theories that President Trump is still in charge or that Joe Biden is now "part of the plan" to make things right in America.

But one has to ask, why hasn't a QAnon of the Left emerged?

The answer to me is simple. While no major Republican congressional leaders appear to pay any attention to QAnon, Democratic leaders are at the forefront of promoting absurd conspiracy theories.

From Russiagate to Ukrainegate to the absurd idea that the goofy storming of the Capitol was an insurgency, it is all promoted by Democratic leadership. From Nancy Pelosi to Chuck Schumer. their madness is surely parallel to that of Qanon.

Pelosi led a Democratic impeachment of former President Trump when he had just days left in office and Chuch Schumer is pushing for a conviction of Trump in the Senate even though he is out of office. How nutty can you get? It sounds Qanon like to me.

The Democratic Party is the Qanon of the left. 

But I would wager, the followers of the Democratic Party conspiracy theories are much greater in size than the QAnon leaders could ever imagine developing in terms of followers.

It is difficult to spot the lunacy of the left as a mirror image of QAnon because there are so many of them and mainstream media is in on the madness.

-RW

Is It Selfish to Not Wear a Mask?

 Another day on the streets of San Francisco and another confrontation with a mask Nazi.

I was walking in the financial district, again, without a mask. A man standing to the side said to me as I passed by in a meek voice, "Don't be selfish, put on a mask."

I stopped.

My reply, "So you think I am selfish because I am not wearing a mask?"

"Yes," the meek voice replied.

My response, "You know, I just don't fear a virus that does not pose a serious threat to 99.9% of the population. And I really don't like you promoting the idea that the virus should be feared by the general population and harassing people who are not interested in your mindless coprolite.

"Your support of tyrannical government mask-wearing, lockdowns, etc. has resulted in an explosion of suicides and who knows how many people in serious mental depression.

"Your fear of a virus that, again, is not of serious consequences to most is resulting in the deaths of untold youth. Your support of such measures strikes me as selfish and you have those deaths on your soul, not me."

"I'm sorry," he said in an apologetic manner and walked away with his head down.

BTW here is some of the data on the explosion in suicides.

The New York Times reported on Sunday in a story that carried the headline, "Surge of Student Suicides Pushes Las Vegas Schools to Reopen":

The reminders of pandemic-driven suffering among students in Clark County, Nev., have come in droves.

Since schools shut their doors in March, an early-warning system that monitors students’ mental health episodes has sent more than 3,100 alerts to district officials, raising alarms about suicidal thoughts, possible self-harm or cries for care. By December, 18 students had taken their own lives.

The spate of student suicides in and around Las Vegas has pushed the Clark County district, the nation’s fifth largest, toward bringing students back as quickly as possible...

“When we started to see the uptick in children taking their lives, we knew it wasn’t just the Covid numbers we need to look at anymore,” said Jesus Jara, the Clark County superintendent. “We have to find a way to put our hands on our kids, to see them, to look at them. They’ve got to start seeing some movement, some hope.”... 

Greta Massetti, who studies the effects of violence and trauma on children at the C.D.C., said there was “definitely reason to be concerned because it makes conceptual sense.”

@AlexBerenson tweets:

1/ Meantime, overdose death figures are coming in for 2020. They are horrific. Maricopa County (Phoenix), had at least 700 more deaths in 2020 than 2019, with 550 more to be investigated. That’s ONE (large) county. Cook County (Chicago) also expects deaths to rise at least 750...

2/ San Francisco reports 699 overdose deaths - a rise of ~60%, and nearly one death for each 1,000 residents.

It is now obvious that the rise in overdose deaths (not the total number, just the rise) in the US will # outstrip the overall #Covid death toll in people under 50...

3/ That comparison takes no account of OTHER lockdown deaths - Or the fact that #Covid deaths are substantially overcounted in people under 50 (I have lots of examples, and the death certificate matching practically guarantees it).

LOCKDOWNS KILL.

Any government official who has ordered lockdowns and those who encouraged them (Psychopath Fauci, Boozer Birx) should be tried for crimes against humanity.

It is not as though the suicides couldn't have been foreseen. In March of last year, I warned about it in a post titled, Suicide Attempts Could Increase By 58,500 Per Month During the Lockdown:

[W]e have enormous swaths of individuals on lockdown inside their homes and apartments without having in-person contact with others. This certainly is not good for those on the stress edge. Tragically, Emily Owen, a 19-year-old, is one of the first to be confirmed dead because of a suicide attempt related to the lockdown.

It could be argued that this period may be more stressful than during the period of the 1929 stock market crash.

Two days later, I wrote:

Emily Owen

I can't imagine the emotional turmoil a person must be going through who chooses to commit suicide in the face of the lockdown.

The British teen Emily Owen, who committed suicide because of the lockdown in England, was diagnosed with “high-functioning autism.” She was probably struggling all her life with trying to fit in, and might have been well on the road to better understanding herself in relation to others when the bastard Boris Johnson shutdown all her relationships.

I put her death directly on the shoulders of Johnson. It wouldn't have happened in a libertarian world. There will be others.

The next day, I posted this: Knoxville, TN Has Seen 10% of Its Annual Suicide Rate in Just the Last 48 Hours:

“That number is completely shocking and makes me wonder if what we are doing now is really the best approach,” Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs said. “We have to determine how we can respond to COVID-19 in a way that keeps our economy intact, keeps people employed and empowers them with a feeling of hope and optimism – not desperation and despair.”

These posts are nearly a year old, the developing trend was obvious back then. The mini-Mao tyrants and midget-Mao enforcers have death on their hands of societies most vulnerable.

It is not selfish to go without a mask, it is a heroic middle finger to the state. A state where its members for bizarre reasons want to treat all non-state humans as cattle, while they party it up.

Gov. Newsom during the lockdowns and mask mandates.

Not wearing a mask is a signal of support to those who sense evil is in the air but don't have the courage to walk free in defiance of the state and its supporters. 

-RW

Tulsi Gabbard to Launch Podcast

Tulsi Gabbard

 Word is that Tulsi Gabbard is planning to launch a podcast.

We will see how oriented toward freedom she is with this effort. I predict a mixed bag.

-RW

WOW, Rand Paul Shreds George Stephanopoulos

Rand Paul emerges!

Rand Paul emerges!

This is awesome.

-RW

EXPOSED: Why Big Pharma Beneficiaries are Behind the Transgender Movement

Last week Wednesday, less than 24 hours after being sworn in as president, Joe Biden signed the Executive Order on Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation.

Among other things, this is the EO that orders males be allowed to play in girls' sports and use female locker rooms and bathrooms:

Children should be able to learn without worrying about whether they will be denied access to the restroom, the locker room, or school sports... because how they dress does not conform to sex-based stereotypes.

So why the hell was Biden so anxious to sign this bill, probably before he even had the chance to use his private White House bathroom?

It turns out there is a big pharma angle.

At The American Conservative, investigative journalist Jennifer Bilek provides the background in an article titled, How LGBT Nonprofits And Their Billionaire Patrons Are Reshaping The World.

From the essay:

Many of the most important philanthropists behind the transgender and gender-identity movements stand to make huge profits from body dissociation and the commoditization of human sex into medical identities.

Take Martine Rothblatt, a self-described transsexual and transhumanist who was the first individual to create a legal document supporting the idea that feelings of dissociation from our sexed bodies is normal. This legal document, later to become the International Gender Bill of Rights, legally normalizes body dissociation. Rothblatt later went on to become the top earning CEO in the biopharmaceutical industry, using his money and influence to promote the ideology and normalization of transgenderism. He believes that sexual dimorphism is morally equivalent to South African apartheid and must be dismantled.

Jennifer Pritzker, along with his family, one of the wealthiest in the United States, has poured huge sums of money into American institutions in order to advance the concept of body dissociation under the euphemism of “gender identity.” The Pritzker family has made vast investments in the medical industrial complex.

In 2000, another billionaire, Jon Stryker, heir to a multi-billion-dollar medical corporation, created another mammoth LGBT NGO, the Arcus Foundation. Stryker created such a global goliath of philanthropic funding with the stocks from his medical corporation that he had to create another organization to keep track of it all. In 2006 Arcus funded the creation of MAP, or Movement Advancement Project, to track the complex system of advocacy and funding that had already developed as a way of insinuating gender identity and transgender ideology into the culture.

Arcus deploys millions of philanthropic dollars each year to filter gender identity and transgender ideology into American law through their training of leaders in political activism, political leadership, transgender law, religious liberty, education, and civil rights. Some of its favored organizations include the Victory Fund, the Center for American Progress, the ACLU the Council for Global Equality, the Transgender Law Center, Trans Justice Funding Project, OutRight Action International, Human Rights Watch, the United Nations, Amnesty International, and GLSEN. In fact, Arcus is recorded to have given more than $58.4 million to programs and organizations doing LGBT-related work between 2007 and 2010  alone (it is far more than that now), making it the largest LGBT funder in the world. Jon Stryker gave over $30 million to the foundation himself in that period, through his stock in Stryker Medical Corporation.

Translation: A medical corporation with a vested interest in encouraging people to identify as transgender is directly funneling money and assets to its philanthropic foundation so that the foundation will do that encouraging on its behalf, thereby bringing more money and more clients (for life) to that corporation...

It is striking that this conflict of interest has been so little discussed. Even the American Psychological Association (APA), the leading scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States, with more than 118,000 members, is funded by Arcus philanthropy. In 2005 the APA created INET, to help member psychological organizations improve the well-being of sexual orientation and “gender diverse people.” Prior to the addition of gender identity and the arrival of Arcus money, the APA INET was solely focused on LGB issues. In 2008 the APA created the Task Force On Gender Identity and Gender Variance, and in 2015 it developed guidelines to assist psychologists in the provision of culturally competent, developmentally appropriate, and trans-affirmative psychological practice with “transgender” and “gender non-conforming” people. Psychologists were “encouraged“ to modify their understanding of gender, broadening the range of variation viewed as healthy and normative.

Those close to power push power to work for their interests regardless of how bizarre they are, especially when there is a buck in it.

According to Business Insider, the cost of transgender medical treatments can add up to more than $100,000. Even at this dollar amount though, it doesn't appear the number of transgenders at this time justify the push, unless the push is to eventually really boost the number under transgender treatments.

 -RW

UPDATE

Biden expected to repeal Trump's transgender military ban as soon as Monday. https://t.co/C1FnWSD6kh

— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 24, 2021

Tacoma Police in Squad Car Run Over Crowd of Proteters

 This happened Saturday night.

Tonight Tacoma Police squad car, ran over a group of car spectators,downtown Tacoma on Pacific ave around 6:30 p.m.

Here’s a video from my personal snapchat. pic.twitter.com/jle0fkzrJM

— Libertad Sam (@libertadsam03) January 24, 2021

-RW

This is Joe Biden’s First 2 Days as President

This gal is great. 

   

 -RW

Californian Dies Hours After Getting COVID-19 Vaccine

 A California resident who was vaccinated against COVID-19 died just hours later, reports the New York Post.

The Placer County [California] Sheriff’s Office announced the death and the investigation Saturday in a Facebook post, but gave few details.

The county, which is in the greater Sacramento area, was “recently notified” of the person’s death, the police said.

Here is why it gets really bizarre.

The person had tested positive for coronavirus in December and had been vaccinated just hours before their Jan. 21 death.

Why would a person already infected with COVID-19 want the vaccine?

Presumably, the person already has the antibodies.

#DreadRiskFear

-RW

Further Thoughts on Libertarian Strategy and Tactics

 

There are some interesting comments at my post announcing my appearance on a FOX show.

One commenter wrote:

[Blacks] would aggressively oppose doing the same for whites because they understand that whites' taxes pay for black benefits.

Trying to convince blacks is ridiculous strategy to advance liberty, even more quixotic than Trump's constant appeal to blacks which won him barely 12%. It's absolutely ridiculous, and we should heavily criticize anyone who suggests it...

[I]t would be a move designed to gain further support for an oppressive state with a specific group (blacks).

When the US military occupies a country with various warring factions, privileges are given to the faction that sides with them. For example, their poppy fields will be left alone while their enemies are destroyed with air-dropped herbicides. This allows the occupation to cement its control by currying favor with some part of the population. It has zero to do with the liberty of the favored group.

After I commented that I was going to respond is a full post, the commenter added:

Well, of course we understand that's not what *you* were trying to do by putting forth those ideas on the show. My point was that that's what the state would be trying to do by giving blacks a special tax exemption. Because this would strengthen the state, not weaken it, it cannot be considered libertarian.

I think it's important to understand the difference between liberty and a granted privilege. In the US, being able to used the taxpayer funded roads is not a liberty, but a granted privilege. So long as you stay within the state-defined rules of the privilege, it *feels* very close to liberty. You can get in your car and go anywhere you want. However once you step out of those rules (for example, by failing to pay state-mandated child support, or not paying licensing fees) then you see the truth - that this privilege is actually used as a mechanism of control.

As the US continues to move further away from liberty, expect more and more of these conditional state-granted privileges for those who toe the line. They aren't libertarian and should be opposed. I look forward to your separate post.

First off, there is absolutely nothing wrong with advocating for the shrinkage of the state. And that is exactly what a call for the elimination of income taxes on black people is about. Now, whether one should put that on the front burner as I did is a different question. But think about it. To argue that such a call will only strengthen the black community in support of the state is absurd. The black community is now mostly supporting the state. They have been bought and paid for a long time ago.

My goal on the show was to make clear that I was not anti-black after making comments that were pro-gentrification. I quoted Malcolm X favorably and then later in the show came the call for the elimination of income taxes on blacks. These kinds of comments on positions which I strongly believe in were simply designed to complete an overview of my thinking when at other times, as one commenter at the post put it, Wenzel was triggering hand grenades in there.

The goal was to get the attention of the audience and the other guests who were making very predictable remarks. They had to pay attention to me because they had no idea what direction I was going to come from next.

During one of the commercial breaks, the host said, "Robert, you are blowing up the chat rooms."

And during the next break, she said,  "I hope my mother is watching tonight."

My deep goal was to catch just 1 or 2 people from the audience who might be curious about my views, and to the degree they are superspreaders of intellectual ideas, all the better. Judging from the emails that I have received this appears to have occurred.

As I have stated before, strategy and tactics are something that libertarians do not think about enough. It is not tic tac toe and the idea of converting the black masses overnight. It is, and I hate to use this term because it is so much abused, three-dimensional chess. You really have to go into a situation knowing what you can get out of it and how to present yourself in different situations while being hardcore about libertarian principles.

There was a lot I was doing with every answer I gave. If you watch the show again keep in mind that with every comment I made I was thinking at many levels not just the surface answer level. Including: Keep it simple and entertaining, wake them up without being offending, get them curious about why I think a certain way about something, present a libertarian angle, attack the state, etc.

Again, for most, it is not going to have any long-range impact, if any impact at all, but this is about fishing and when you go fishing you don't try to catch every fish in the ocean or even every fish of a particular species. I was fishing for the curious who have some degree of intellectual super spreader capability.

And one last point. Let's suppose the state does eliminate income taxes for blacks, how do you think that income taxation of whites is going to sit with whites? Do you think outrage about their income tax burden and a new movement? Three-dimensional chess.

-RW

Twitter Suspends ‘Antifa’ Accounts

Twitter has suspended several popular accounts with alleged ties to Antifa — which have more than 71,000 followers combined — following several Inauguration Day riots, reports The New York Post.

Accounts that have been suspended include @TheBaseBK. 

Breaking: @Twitter has suspended several prominent #antifa accounts. @TheBaseBK is one of them. The Base is an extremist bookstore in Brooklyn, NY that has been used as an antifa training center. pic.twitter.com/CeCIhzpJBQ

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) January 21, 2021

Antifa is about to learn that there is only room for one power group at the top in a power and control system. The others eventually get the proverbial Trotsky-style ice pick to the back of the head.

It appears that Twitter has aligned itself with the Biden power center.

But it will be interesting to see how the lefty shock troops react. A death blow has not been delivered to them and these are not wallflowers. They do not take being abused lightly.

I predict there will be an aggressive response. 

Lefties fighting lefties, grab your popcorn.

-RW

Adam Carolla: Intellectually, Leftists Never Leave High School

As I have said many times,  lefties are shallow thinkers.

 

 -RW

(ht Dale Steinreich)

Libertarian Down: Libertarian Party Mises Caucus Chair Michael Heise Has Been Permanently Banned From Facebook

Former CIA director  John Brennan wasn't kidding when he indicated the deep state and its operatives would be going after libertarians in addition to others.

Libertarian Party Mises Caucus and Mises PAC Chair Michael Heise has been permanently banned from his personal Facebook page, which he's used to build awareness about the Mises Caucus. 

It doesn't appear as though there was anything on the page that came close to being a threat.

Be careful out there my friends and be careful about what you post out there on the internet.

The Left is not messing around right now and it could get much worse--beyond just cancellation of social media accounts.

-RW

COVID-19 Related Suspicious Death of Baseball Great Hank Arron

Hank Aaron

By Children's Health Defense Team

Baseball legend Hank Aaron, who received the Moderna COVID vaccine on Jan. 5, has died. According to the New York Times, the Atlanta Braves confirmed the 86-year-old Hall of Famer’s death today, but did not provide further details.

CNN reported that Aaron died “peacefully in his sleep,” and that no cause of death was disclosed.

Aaron made headlines earlier this month when he was photographed getting the Moderna vaccine. He told the Associated Press at the time that getting vaccinated “makes me feel wonderful.” He added:

“I don’t have any qualms about it at all, you know. I feel quite proud of myself for doing something like this. … It’s just a small thing that can help zillions of people in this country.”

Aaron was vaccinated at the Morehouse School of Medicine health clinic in Atlanta, in what news reports said was an attempt to inspire other Black Americans to step up to the plate and get the vaccine. The AP reported at the time:

“Rolling up their sleeves to take the first of two doses, these octogenarians, their spouses and several other civil rights leaders who received the shots in a brand-new health clinic at the Morehouse School of Medicine acknowledged the legacy of mistrust that many African Americans have toward medical research, stemming from the infamous Tuskegee experiment in which U.S. health workers left syphilis untreated in Black men without their consent, making them suffer needlessly.”

In December, VOX reported on the launch of a global campaign using influencers and celebrities to help overcome “vaccine hesitancy,” stating that it “will be unprecedented” and many institutions will have a role, including government and public health authorities.

However, health officials continue to encounter pushback, including from healthcare workers.

Adverse events to the COVID vaccine have been reported worldwide. Germany and Norway have reported a combined 43 deaths among elderly people who received the Pfizer vaccine, prompting China health officials to call for the vaccines to be suspended, especially among the elderly.

On learning of Aaron’s death, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., chairman and chief legal counsel for Children’s Health Defense, said: “Aaron’s tragic death is part of a wave of suspicious deaths among elderly closely following administration of COVID vaccines.”

“Studies show that self-interested pharmaceutical company researchers, physicians, nursing homes and health officials seldom report vaccine injuries. Instead, they dismiss injuries and deaths as ‘unrelated’ to vaccination,” Kennedy said. “Public health advocates worry that the vast majority of injuries and deaths will go unreported to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), the notoriously broken voluntary surveillance system run by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).”

A 2001 HHS study concluded that “fewer than 1% of vaccine injuries” are reported to VAERS.

As The Defender reported last week, California was forced to recall a batch of 330,000 Moderna vaccines after a cascade of reported injuries, though now the company says it’s okay to resume administration of that batch.

The Defender also covered the story of a 56-year-old Florida doctor who died about two weeks after getting his first dose of Pfizer’s vaccine. His death is under investigation by Florida health officials. In addition, multiple severe allergic reactions have been directly linked to the Pfizer vaccine.

The above originally appeared at the Children's Health Fund.